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Farm leaders to look at support price fixing method-Gargi Parsai

-The Hindu A committee comprising farmers' representatives will look at the method of fixing the minimum support price of agricultural commodities. It will suggest if there is a need for the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) to re-position itself in the light of the demands from farmers to raise the remunerative price for Essential Commodities. At its first meeting held here on Thursday, the panel headed by Director of National Centre...

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Blame Govt for high wheat prices -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

-The Hindu Business Line   The general tendency among Indian policy makers currently is to blame international price movements for the rise in prices of essential food items in India. The extent to which this claim is valid is assessed by examining the specific case of wheat. It is no secret that Indian food prices are increasingly affected by international prices. Ever since 2002, when all quantitative restrictions on Indian imports of agricultural...

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Minister promises safe drinking water at Rs. 2 per litreMinister promises safe drinking water at Rs. 2 per litre

-The Hindu   50 Bodhan villages in pilot project YEDAPALLY (NIZAMABAD DT.): Efforts are on to supply safe and purified drinking water at the rate of 20 paise per litre to every household in over 50 villages in Bodhan Assembly constituency. If this pilot project being undertaken at a cost of Rs. 3-4 lakh for each unit is successful, it will be extended to other villages in course of time. Disclosing this at an...

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Bring down inflation, streamline PDS: LS members

-PTI Lok Sabha members on Friday raised serious concern over the prevailing high inflation and sought government’s intervention to check price rise along with streamlining the Public Distribution System (PDS). Moving a private member’s resolution on steps to control the rise in prices of Essential Commodities, Mahendra Kumar Roy (CPI-M) said people are suffering because of high inflation and demanded ban on futures trading in commodities. Mr. Roy also raised the issue of...

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Deciding who gets to eat -Brinda Karat

-The Hindu By allowing futures trade in food and diversion of farm land for commercial purposes, the UPA government is fuelling the price rise International agencies are warning of high food prices on a global scale in 2013 if urgent action is not taken. But our government shows little concern. The President’s address to Parliament had only a cursory mention of inflation. “Inflation is easing gradually, but is still a problem,” he...

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